West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-11-04


to interfere with the election of mem
bers of the House of Representatives
in Congress. He knows that lie
might as well go to Bismarck and
say l dismiss you from the Chan
cellorship of the German Empire or
the Kingdom of Prussia, as to go
and say to a member of the House
OF Representatives in Congress, i
dismiss you from your seat in this
body And why has he no such
power Because the constitution
declares that each house shall be
the sole judge of the election return
and qualification of it's own mem
bers.
''The House Of Representatives
then alone has this power, and the
Senate has no power over it whatso-
ever, and Mr.. Sherman is as help
less as a child to remedy this thing,
even if the evil existed, and hence
all he can do is to come and excite
the North against the South by
making such statements as that to
which / refer.
HOW TO DISSOLVE THE SOLID SOUTH.
"Now, l appeal to you, once for
all, set your faces against this Sec
tionalism. If the Republican lead
ers want to put an end to the solid
South they have the easiest way in
the world to do it. They can do i.
in brief enough time, Iassure you.
All they have to do ssto cease to
create and to seek to perpetuate a
solid North, and the solid South
will dissolve. AS have said to you
before, nearly half the South was
once opposed to the Democratic par
ty. and then half the North supper
ted the Democratic party. Now,
when they have got control of al
most every Northern State-now,
when there are but few Democratic
States in the North, the South, in
self-defiance, is a solid Democratic
unit. But let them take off the
weight that they have imposed on
the people of the North, let them
cease their attempts to rule, not
merely the people of the South, but
to rule the millions of Northern
Democrats; for it is not only on the
people of the South alone they plant
their heel, or would plant it, it is
upon the necks of the Democracy of
the North they desire to plant their
heel, too. (Applause.) Let them
cease to do that Let the country
come back to what it was years ago,
and then you will have no solid
North and no solid South, but each
section, each State, for itself will
nudge, as it did then, whether to
vote the Democratic ticket or wheth-
er to vote the Republican ticket.
That they can put an end to just
when they choose. But they don't
want to put an end to it. They want
the solid South in order to make
that pretext for having a solid
North, more powerful than the solid
South, and by means of that sold
Republican North, to rule, not only
the South, but to rule every Demo
crat in the Northern States from one
end of these States to the other. l
do not give them credit, therefore,
for sincerity when they talk about a
solid South. / do not give them
credit for patriotism when they en-
deavor to excite the people of the
North against the people of the
South by this cry.
THE SURPLUS.
The present tariff is piling up at
the rate of $100,000,000 a year in
the Treasury money that is collected
for which the government has no
use. This is simply monstrous. l
have said that everybody is bound
to contribute to the support of the
government; but it is lnonstrous to
tax him $1O0,000,000 year in or
der to get money and lay it up in
the Treasury, which the government
doesn't need at all, which the gov
ernment can't make any honest use
of; and there never was anything in
the world more corrupting than this
accumulation of surplus money in
that way. 1t leads to all manner OF
corrupt schemes of plunder in Con-
gress, and if they 90 on much longer
there will be no such thing as an
honest tax bill or an honest appro-
priation bill that will pass that body.
THE NOBLE OLD ROMANS FAREWELL.
"My friends, this is probably the
last political speech l ever shall
make. / don't know. l am pretty
tough old fellow, and it may be that
/ will be wondering about here, like
ghost on the bank of Styx, ten
years from now talking Democracy
to you. l swear you will never hear
me talking anything else. Laugh
ter and applause. But l am in
clined to think that this is the last
political speech l ever shall make.
And if it is, in my parting words to
you beseech you to stand by the
great principles that Thomas Jeffer
son laid down for the American peo-
Pile, that Andrew Jackson enforced
and that have made this country
one of the greatest and freest and
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